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HENRY MORGAN, E CEDAR FALLS, IOWA, Assis-risen. oijoivnrirfnn iro CiAELEs LEE osTRAEDEE, or WATERLOO, IOWA, AND ONE-frieren To CLARENCE n. WISE, 0F

CEDAR FALLS, IOWA.

EEArIne MACHINE'.

Application fired April-12, 192A. semina. temer.

To all yiii/'1.0m t may concern.' l

leit known that l', HENRY Monnaie, citizen ofthe United States, residing at Cedar Falls,

in the county of Black Hawk and Stat-e` of lowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eeaping Machines, of which the following'is a specification'.

My invention relates to improvements in reaping machines, and the object cf my imio provcment is to supply such a machine with a relatively fixed sickle element, and-with an endless lariying and propelling device about and auxiliary to the sickle and adapted to receive and drag the stems of grain or the like in separated parts across the sickle to sever the stems, while then alining the stems andinoving them to a place of deposit and delivery toa binder or other device.

This object l have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter describedand claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being vunderstood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein'disclosed can be madewithin the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In said drawings:

Fig. l is a top plan of my improved reaping niaeiine, with parts removed or broken ai ay.` g. 2V is across section taken on the y broken line 2-7--2 vof Fig, l, on `a larger scale,

of the reaping mechanim including the lined sickle and the endless propelling device. Fig. B a perspective view of one of the propelling elements of said'device as separated from its associated mechanisn'i.V

l! et is a fragmentary perspective detail view of one of said propelling elements as-V sociated with some of the reaping members and supports.

A sub-frame 3 is mounted on a shaft 2 upon whose ends arefixed a pair of Vground wheels 1. A top fra-ine` l is rigidlyV supported on the sub-frame, while the front cross-bar 5 of this sub-frame has spacedapertured lugs between which are pivoted the rear ends of a forwardly projecting vshaped traction device G. Theapex ofthis device is pivot-ally connected to an upright pin 7 on a cross-beam or member 8 in which the axle of a pair of smaller ground wheels 9 is rotatably mounted.

A supporting structure for the reaping mechanism is rigidly mounted transversely across the sub-frame forwardly ofl the a'Xle or shaft 2 medial of the ksub-frame as shown, or if desired may be positioned -moi'e'foi`- v .rdly to be at or about the front of the subframe. As shown in said Fig. 2 thissupporting structure includes spaced angle-bars 23 and 2l; and a medially located bar or plate lo, which are bolted or otherwise fastenedrigidlyv to the sub-frame. Upon the bar oi' plate it is secured a channeled plate 17, and this together with another angle-bar 2l i paced above the forward angle-bar carry one lilatform member 18 to which is fixedV as by welding or otherwise a more elevated platform member 20. The forward longitudinal marginal part of the member 1S issliaped'w'ith raised angular projections l5) with angles to the front. The sickle-blade 22h; fastened rigidly uponthe under face of said anglesbar 2l spaced a little above 'the lower front anglerbar QS.

Upon the lower end of an erect rotatable shaft 3() mounted on the sub-frame is fixed a drivingsprocketewheel it the outer extremity of the supporting plate 1G is rotatably mounted an'idler-sprocket 3-l, and a sprocketechain 33 passed about and meshed with said spi-ocket-wheels,

lUpon the upper enn'of the vertical shaft is fixeda bevel-pinion 3l in mesh with a bevel-gear 29,-the latter mounted on a short shaftf, and on the latter shaftfis also fined a sprocket-'wheel 27, a sprocketchain 2G connecting the-latter with a larger sprocket-wheel liz-(ed on .the driving axle 2. lt will be. observed that when the apparatus is drawn i'oi'wai."dly, the said driving-conneetions canse the sprocket-chain 33 tomove. in one direction, to propel the for` nardl rcachthereof from lthe idler Si toward the sprocket l l have inevid l a plurality of grain pro` polling members o arranged regularly along the sprocket-chain 33 to cooperate with lthe sickle Q2 in the cutting and moving-'of the cut grain upon and along the platform nienr bers lil- 20. Y

Referring to Figs. 2 to il, each member 36 is in body a fiat plate cut away or narrowed at one end andfincised to provide aY bent over lug 3S( This plate close to said lugA has on its under facej a fixedv pin which is fixed to a link of thesprocket-chain 33 below. The lplate partl 36 is placed horizon tally within the interspace of the sickle 22 Cif and the lower angle-bar 23 to project forwardly of the angle-bar and sickle as shown in I"ig. 2. The plate is shaped with a forwardly diminished part directed angularly at a curved recess 37 and diminished to a point at 59, with this inclined point at the forward reach of the sproc .iet-chain 33 directed inclinedly toward the direction of travel of the chain toward the place of delivery on said frame. The plate is then bent along an oblique line angularly upwardly and then curved inclinedly rearwardly and away from said line of travel, providing a diminished finger which is positioned over and across the sickle 22 and over the angular projections 19 on the plat` form member 18 as also across said member obliquely nearly to the more elevated platform member 20. Upon opposite sides of the supporting channel-plate 17 are fixed angle-bars 41 just above the rearwardly projecting ends of the plates 36, while a plate 49 is secured upon and along the under face of the supportingplate 16 to have its longitudinal margins project under the same ends of said plate 36, whereby the said plate ends may travel loosely between the plate e9 and the angle-bars 41 to prevent vertical tilting, the lugs 38 on the plates 36 being stopped by the abutting anglebars 23 and 24: to prevent horizontal deiiections.

In operation, when the machine is drawn forward, the driving mechanism propels the sprocket-chain so that its forward reach together with the members 36 are 'moved toward the sprocket-wheel 32. The points 39 of said members separate from each other portions of the standing grain and push these portions along the serrated cutting edge of the sickle 22, so that the inclined rear edge of the point or projection 39 together with the rounded following edge 37 of each member draw the grain stems so that they are compressively pushed toward the sickle as the members 36 are progressively moved therealoiw. This insures severing of the stems, and ascut the butts of the reaped stems are drawn longitudinally relative to the sickle to fall and be drawn over upon the platform members 18-20, the inclined fingers 40 directing the stems upon the platform in part aided by the dragging friction thereagainst of the angular projections 19.

I-Iaving described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. In a reaping machine, a sickle, driving means, and a device driven thereby along said sickle, having projections directed angularly relatively thereto and bent reversely across the sickle.

2. In a reaping machine, a relatively fined sickle of elongated shape, driving means, and linked elements driven thereby, having lingers directed across the sickle at an oblique angle thereto.

3. In a reaping machine, driving means, a sickle, and a device longitudinally thereof and driven by said driving means, comprising movably-connected hooked elements whose hooks are concave at one side and project across the sickle.

4. In a reaping machine, a relatively i'ixed sickle, driving means, .and a device consisting of connected hooked members driven thereby and projecting outwardly therefrom and then bent across the sickle withI the forward reach of the device extending along the sickle, the bent parts thereof inclined in the direction of movement.

5. In a reaping machine, a relatively lined sickle with a straight cutting edge, driving means, and an endless chain of propeilindl hooks driven thereby and positioned to have one reach movable longitudinally of the cutting edge. of the sickle. i

6. In a reapinel machine, a relatively fixed sickle, driving means, and interlink'ed devices driven thereby along the sickle, having' hooks provided with projections carried oliliquely across the sickle.

7. In a reaping machine, a relatively liked sickle, driving means, and interlinked devices drivcn thereby along the sickle, having bends with pointed hooks with inclined partel extending across the sickle and having`concavities in their advancing shanks.

8. In a reaping machine, a relative y fixed sickle with relative minute serrations, driving means, and a sectional device driven thereby lengthwise of said serrated edge and whose sections are reversely bent lo cross the sickle edge obliquely to project both forwardly and rearwardly of the sickle.

9. In a reaping machine, means for transportation, relatively liked sickle. an elongated support for the sickle niounted ou said means for transportation, an elongated receiving platform mounted on said support to the rear of the sickle, an endless-chain device driven by said means for transporta tion and positioned below said support and having its front reach parallel with the sickle, and lingers mounted on said device to project forwardly of the sickle, thence bent upwardly and across it obliquely.

10. In a reaping machine, means for transportation, a sickle supported thereon, and connected relatively movable oblique concave and reversely bent fingers driven by said means for transportation lengthwise of the sickle. 4

In testimony whereof he alliires his signa4 ture.

Waterloo, Iowa, March 10, 1924.

HENRY li/IQRGAN.

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